WebHistory

WebHistory objects are used to maintain the pages visited by users. Visited pages are represented by WebHistoryItem objects. You add and remove history items using the addItems(_:) and removeItems(_:) methods. These methods post appropriate notifications when items are added or removed so you can update the display. WebHistory organizes the WebHistoryItem objects by the day they were visited, ordered from most recent to oldest. You can request all the days that contain history items using the orderedLastVisitedDays method or request the items visited on a particular day using the orderedItemsLastVisited(onDay:) method. WebHistory objects can be loaded and saved by specifying a file URL (see load(from:)).

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Accessing Previous Webpages (Legacy)

A WebBackForwardList object maintains a list of visited pages used to go back and forward to the most recent page. A WebBackForwardList object maintains only the list data—it does not perform actual page loads (in other words, it does not make any client requests). If you need to perform a page load, see the load(_:) method in WebFrame to find out how to do this.

WebHistoryItem objects encapsulate information about visiting a page so that users can return to that page. WebHistory and WebBackForwardList objects manage lists of WebHistoryItem objects. WebHistoryItem objects are created and added to these lists automatically when loading pages, so you do not need to create WebHistoryItem objects directly.